You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

Life is about having a good time.

Success is how you collect your minutes.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

When something is over, it is over.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

Love is talkative passion.

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

When you're dead, you're done.

If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.

You blows who you is.